Landscape & Garden Design
Earn a certificate in Landscape & Garden Design and learn to apply basic techniques for designing aesthetically pleasing, environmentally responsible landscapes.
Landscape Design IV
| Dates: | Wed., Jan. 25; Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 (snow date: Mar. 7) |
| Time: | 7 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Instructor: | Michele Frey McCann |
| Objective: | To complete a landscape design, incorporating the skills and processes learned in the core curriculum of the landscape design program, and drawing on knowledge acquired in the elective courses. |
| Level: | N/A |
| Prerequisites: | Landscape Design I, II, and III |
| Fee: | $ 200 members; $250 non-members |
| Location: | Phipps Garden Center in Mellon Park |
This course is the culminating project of the core part of the Landscape & Garden Design certificate program. Using a specified design project, the student will work to develop a final design, including a planting plan.
Class size is limited.
This class has been canceled.
To register, call the Garden Center at (412) 441-4442 ext. 3925 or download our registration form.
This is a core course in the Landscape & Garden Design certificate program.
Landscape Graphics
| Dates: | Wed., Mar. 28; Apr. 4, 11, 18, 25; May 2 |
| Time: | 7 - 9 p.m. |
| Instructor: | Michele Frey McCann |
| Objective: | To begin to be able to use acceptable freehand and drafting techniques that will produce legible landscape drawings. |
| Level: | N/A |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Fee: | $ 180 members; $230 non-members |
| Location: | Phipps Garden Center in Mellon Park |
Designers use graphics to develop and communicate ideas that do not yet exist. Working with pencil, learn freehand and mechanical drawing techniques. Topics include lettering, sheet layout and title blocks, concept drawing and presentation plan graphics, and colored renderings.
To register, call the Garden Center at (412) 441-4442 ext. 3925 or download our registration form.
This is a core course in the Landscape & Garden Design certificate program and an elective in the Sustainable Horticulture program.
History of Landscape Design
| Dates: | Tues. Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24; May 1, 8 |
| Time: | 7 - 9 p.m. |
| Instructor: | Christine Mondor |
| Objective: | To be able to integrate landscape design principles with architectural styles based upon an understanding of landscape history. |
| Level: | N/A |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Fee: | $ 120 members; $160 non-members |
| Location: | Phipps Garden Center in Mellon Park |
To study garden design is to perceive (visually and otherwise) garden form and explore the many forces that have influenced the creative process. A sense of place that a garden can create and the form of a garden can only be fully understood by studying the culture and the individuals that created it. Then it is possible to apply this knowledge of garden history to the evaluation of the materials and spaces of today’s gardens and landscapes.
To register, call the Garden Center at (412) 441-4442 ext. 3925 or download our registration form.
This is a core course in the Landscape & Garden Design certificate program and an elective in the Sustainable Horticulture certificate program.
